Pitt’s partnership with a Puerto Rican university was awarded a Sloan Foundation grant

A partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) won one of 17 Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

This funding from the Sloan Foundation aims to promote faculty-to-faculty collaboration on research, teaching and other mutually beneficial endeavors that strengthen partners’ undergraduate and graduate STEM programs and widen student pathways to STEM graduate education, benefiting all students.

The Pitt-UPRM partnership will facilitate collaborations on energy systems research. In Puerto Rico, damage caused by hurricanes and frequent power outages have had adverse impacts on critical research infrastructure. Part of the project’s funds will support UPRM master’s students’ travel to Pittsburgh, where they will complete their research with Pitt equipment.